Recent comments in /f/news

MurderDoneRight t1_jabwvtk wrote

Maybe they can put it in Garfield Heights, Ohio. They built a landfill in the 1970s where they dumped toxic waste, closed it up years later without cleaning it up, a developer bought it and put a mall on top of it, the ground started sinking as gases escaped from the soil, most of the businesses left, it was reworked as a business park and is still open to this day.

Did I mention the reason why they figured out the dump were toxic? Because a staggering amount of people were developing tumors. People still live there. Shit is still messed up 50 years on and everything is business as usual.

17

mq2thez t1_jabtria wrote

There are a lot of jobs for product, and a lot fewer jobs for infra. You can bootstrap your way into Frontend a lot faster, and in theory, you only need one “expert” to enable/review for a larger group and sorta keep things on the rails.

People follow the reward structure. If you’re trying to get into programming, boot camps and Frontend are a fast and relatively efficient way to do so.

I’ve been a “Frontend” dev for more than a decade (I remember being excited about a new library called jQuery and how many problems it solved). It’s been great watching the industry shift toward taking UI/UX more seriously, but it’s been horrifying watching software quality tank in the name of slamming out badly-A/B tested features faster and faster.

Maybe one day I’ll find another job where the focus is on the craft, but at the moment the money is coming in elsewhere.

11

walkandtalkk t1_jabs149 wrote

Being serious, we're not just killing every adult involved in a gang.

But I have no problem modifying the human-trafficking laws to cover this sort of behavior and liberally using the RICO statute to have all involved convicted of trafficking children and sentenced to 20-25 years minimum in federal prison.

No amount of street cred will be worth getting out of prison when you're eligible for AARP and the robots have taken over all human decision-making.

−3

Arrow_Artemis t1_jabr163 wrote

It's about time. Be concerned where it's going, where it has been going, what will they do with it when they get there, how long does it stay there, Does it stay there, how long will it be there, how much more will accumulate in one year's time, 5 years time, 10 years time? Why do we create this product in the first place, why can't we find alternative ways, why do we continue to risk ourselves and the environment by constantly poisoning it , ourselves and wonder why new diseases and Cancers etc exist? Why don't we realize that it's everybody's backyard, no matter where we put it? It might be 30 miles from your house but in a few years it'll be 10 mi from your kid's house and one mile from your grandkids future house. We got to get proactive and stop waiting for disasters to happen before we ask yourselves vital questions instead of worrying about the next PS5 Black Friday sale, or how many likes for tick tock challenge, or free crap because you think you're an influencer. Or like some others who sit around and watch The boob tube all damn day, morning News evening news, drama and crime shows, emotionally involved in pretend characters but completely oblivious of what's going out on next door. Just mentally and emotionally exhausting. To be raised to recycle and save the whales and decades later corporate companies finally gave in just to market GREEN and it just got worse. We know the solutions, it takes work and lots of change. And I'm not sure if that's in the American vocabulary anymore. It can be, but even the best of us distract ourselves on a daily because we feel alone in the fight. Power in numbers my friends.🕊️

0

Crizbibble t1_jabq9ec wrote

The new IT crowd especially the folks going to these software boot camps don’t know how to build networks, maintain proper information security or do much of anything outside of building front ends and web services. They are also unwilling to learn it because they don’t think it’s important. Not sure why that is happening or what schools are teaching.

17